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Winslow Twp. shooting plotter released

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Winslow shooting plotter released:

One of the convicted in the Winslow Township High School shooting plot in South Jersey has been released early. Back in October, the 15-year-old was sentenced to three years in a juvenile facility. He ended up serving less than 8 months.

A report by a psychologist described the youth as “very compliant,” and suggested that his release from incarceration would be appropriate. He will be on probation until he is 18 years old.

The youth, who has completed 10th grade and maintained honor status at Training School for Boys at Jamesburg, will enter an alternative high school in September, said his attorney Mark Molz.

“I messed up,” the youth told Superior Court Judge Angelo DiCamillo at the hearing.

“I want to go home with my family, finish school and get good grades and graduate.”

As always in these cases, I have to wonder if the boy is sincere or is he just telling the judge what he wants to hear. I hope he is sincere but you’ll forgive me if I’m a little skeptical. If he has changed his ways then great. I’m happy for him. However, If I was the judge I would have made him serve out the remainder of his sentence to teach him a lesson in responsibility. Then again I’ve been told I’m a heartless bastard.

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7 responses to “Winslow Twp. shooting plotter released”

  1. Alan Avatar
    Alan

    One can only agree with your self assessment 😛

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  2. Trench Avatar
    Trench

    I take that as a compliment. 😎

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  3. Citizen Avatar
    Citizen

    I would like to know is what prompted these students to take such harsh action? Keep in mind that the school is out of control in violence, etc, why this incident was any different, made headline news, yet blacks who are the majority of trouble makers, receives very little attention.

    Thank you.

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  4. Alan Avatar
    Alan

    It has nothing what so ever to do with race.

    Getting back to this kid. Hopefully he does mean it, and sucessfully re-integrates back into normal life, benefitting himself and the rest of society.

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  5. Citizen Avatar
    Citizen

    How do you know it had nothing to do with race”? I’ve you talked to these students personally?

    thank you

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  6. winslow boy Avatar
    winslow boy

    look i know all these kids personally. i should i went to school with them. i was there for that year. what those boys did. . . its unforgivable. And the lil B****** who was released is now going back. so its obvious these ar criminal minded boys. This had nothing to do with race. there was never the hint of race. i know for a fact that they were friendly with students of all racial backrounds. but they segregated themselves. they pulled themselves away from the rest of the student body. and so they were noticed as outcasts. I have no simpathy for them. They did this to themselves. they’ve permanently marked themselves as outcasts of society. and the sad part is. they used to be really nice kids. i was friendly with one of them for several years. why they did this i cannot say.

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  7. jess Avatar
    jess

    This was my brother. He got mixed up in a messed up situation.. Could you blame him? Our mom was smoking crack and the system failed to give us the support we needed. He got out of jail and went back. When he was finally released before he turned 18, he was out for good and tried to better himself. He maintained multiple jobs and was a great friend to those he had, but of course, with this kind of reputation there’s not much you can do. I remember going with him to try to sign up for college, but he never had the help he needed to sign up for financial aid. He loved animals and had a kitten that he had rescued from a snowstorm. He was on his way to a better life, but he was living in a dark world with no one on his side. He ended up addicted to drugs for a small period of time before he killed himself. He was lonely and all he needed was a little help. He apparently overdosed a week before hanging himself and was released from the hospital while delusionally high, and NO ONE told us, I found out months after he had died from a friend whose mother was the paramedic who revived him… We had NO IDEA he had been using opiates for this small period of time. He was treated like shit and just wanted to live a good life. He worked at Home Depot and got countless awards for being so friendly and outgoing. He could have had a great life, but it ended just after turning 22. SO I would like to say, when he was released this first time, he had good intentions. He did end up graduating from highschool, but he was still in and out of juvenile prison multiple times before turning 18. He was in Lakeland for only a few months before being released on house arrest, in a small neighborhood flooded with drugs. Our rehabilitation in this state SUCKS. When caught with drugs, instead of getting rehabilitation he was re-incarcerated, with insufficient group treatment. We need o fix this system.

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